De'Longhi Autentica Cappuccino, Fully Automatic Bean to Cup Coffee Machine, Espresso Maker,1.4 litres, ETAM29.660.SB, Silver and Black

This is my second De'Longhi bean to cup coffee machine.Dad who is 80 managed to break the coffee grinder on the old one by fiddling with the adjustment dial in the hopper. It still works with ground coffee, but be advised only to adjust the grinder one notch at a time, and only when the grinder is in operation.The Autentica comes with the same health warning.That said my new Autentica arrived just before christmas and I am super delighted with it and fast on my way to becoming a coffee geek; I can now converse in coffee and can tell you what the difference between a cappuccino a lattè and a flat white, a ristretto, doppio and an espresso, even if I'm still not sure how to spell them properly.Bottom line is they all taste superb, because you can set the strength of coffee, the froth of the milk, and the size of the cup, to suit yourself.There are four temperature settings too, as well as a cup warming tray on top to take the chill off your cups, but the tray does take 5-10minutes to warm up fully.If you want your own particular style in your favourite cup, you can set it to dispense that at the touch of a button.You can even adjust how long the machine will remain on standby before switching itself off, and another feature to set it to come on, so that eg it is warmed up ready for breakfast in the morning.The milk jug can be swopped out, it fits neatly in the fridge door tray, for a hot water/steam nozzle for making tea or cuppasoup, but I'm drinking so much coffee right now I haven't gotten round to trying that option.One unexpected pleasure was also buying the insulated glasses; they come in 3 sizes ie espresso, cappuccino and latte or very short standard and very long.You can see the alternate layers of milk , coffee and foam in the glass, and no matter how hot the coffee the glass is pleasantly warm in your hands.Well it impressed me!*postscript: had it now for a month and I am getting the jitters from the amount of coffee I'm now drinking. Loving my coffee.The water jug could do with being bigger but quick and easy to refill almost filled to the brim.The steam/hot water nozzle could be longer, for making up a jug of hot milk, if you want to get creative/artistic pouring your cappuccinos.Yup, that's how bad I've got the habbit now. 😉

We bought this to replace a DeLonghi Magnifica which had given us nearly 10 years service on a daily basis. My daughter likes a frothy milk so the mik function was just what we needed. Some of the other DeLonghi machines will not do a hot frothy milk. The milk function is much better as you canvary the amount of frothiness.Accessability to empty the drip tray and the grounds container is better than on the Magnifica, and the water is at the back not the side like on the Magnifica, which again is easier to access.I would recomend this machine for its good looks and excellent functionality.

This machine replaced my Gaggia Titanium, so, I didn't expect it to be as comparable, and it isn't. but that aside it does do a good espresso and cappuccino which is passable. Long milk drinks, the milk doesn't get hot enough. I used a Gaggia milk thermometer, frothed milk only reaches 42 degrees, a shot of coffee in it takes it to 48 degrees. the Delonghi tutorial site recommends the frothed milk should be 60 degrees by using the jug and steam method, but, this machine does not have that facility, I had read that the milk was not very hot in other reviews but others did not mention this problem, so I thought it might be a personal taste issue. It be good if Delonghi did a steam nozzle that coud be fitted in place of the milk caraf. Dropped it a star because of the milk not hot enoughI've had this machine for 6 months now, and being trying to find ways to get the milk hotter. initially I used the hot water from the machine as per instructions which wasn't enough, so I've been using boiled water from a kettle which improved the heat of cafelatte and capuccino but I like it COSTA hot, my latest idea is to heat some milk in the microwave to just below boiling point and just use the cremalatta to top of my coffee of choice.Hope this helps those who want a hotter coffee.

I bought this from Amazon five years ago. During that time I've descaled it at least 10 times, and replaced the water canister at the back of the machine when the lid decided to break and fall off. The water canister is easy to source and cheap to buy.This is a magnificent coffee machine. It works as well now as it did five years ago and has never let me down. Coffee tastes better than the crap from Starbucks et al. I drink about 10 cups of coffee a day so the machine is well used.This was an expensive present to myself and I have had more than my money's worth from it.

I’ve had coffee from bean to cup machines before and been (or bean) generally unimpressed so I was nervous about buying this one.What made me push the button was mainly the temperature adjustment, yes it makes a proper hot cup of coffee.There are enough settings to adjust coffee strength and quantity to make most happy. You can also use pre-ground coffee, it’s a bit of a fuss adding one scoop then another for a long coffee, i.e. a full cup of coffee.The milk foam is fiddly, tall latte cups don’t fit and if you don’t pay attention you’ll end up with a mess. But otherwise super easy, cappuccinos are one button push. It’s not quiet when grinding and rinsing but that’s par for the course.And the coffee tastes great.